The only web presence I could find other than links to Waller reffing and a post for a fight card billing him as 12-2 was here and this showing him to have a 0-1-0 record after losing a fight in Wyoming in 2007. Sherdog's Fight Finder, lists his record as the one fight referred to by the MMA-Core site.

Miles City, MT huh? That is near where I grew up. Out in Missoula now. Let me do some digging and ask a few of our fighters who do fights out that way.

Edit:

Did a little digging. Records seem to indicate that he did live in Minnesota. It looks as if he lived in Byron, MN. Byron looks to be 8 miles from Rochester so we may want to start our search for the mysterious Machado there.

Records also indicate that he lived in Chester, Iowa before that. Chester is just across the Minnesota state line. It is about an hour from Byron. However, the road looks like a less traveled one and Google maps is notoriously bad on roads that are not major roadways. It is likely closer to 30-45 minutes.

If a Machado exists in Rochester it is likely that he would travel from either Byron or Chester.

I also have a phone number and address. I may give the gentlemen a call and see if I can get some clearer information.

Miles City, MT huh? That is near where I grew up. Out in Missoula now. Let me do some digging and ask a few of our fighters who do fights out that way.

Edit:

Did a little digging. Records seem to indicate that he did live in Minnesota. It looks as if he lived in Byron, MN. Byron looks to be 8 miles from Rochester so we may want to start our search for the mysterious Machado there.

Records also indicate that he lived in Chester, Iowa before that. Chester is just across the Minnesota state line. It is about an hour from Byron. However, the road looks like a less traveled one and Google maps is notoriously bad on roads that are not major roadways. It is likely closer to 30-45 minutes.

If a Machado exists in Rochester it is likely that he would travel from either Byron or Chester.

I also have a phone number and address. I may give the gentlemen a call and see if I can get some clearer information.

Ok, I can't definitively swear that a legit Machado has never lived in Minnesota, but I can say it is highly unlikely. My current school is a Rigan affiliate and he has come out this way for a seminar but I don't remember ever hearing about one of his relatives living in Rochester. I can also pretty much name every legit BJJ black belt living in the state, or at least will have heard something about them.

There is, however, a 100% legit BJJ stud in Rochester in Mario Roberto. If anybody is claiming high level BJJ training in the Rochester area, since 2004 or so at least, and they aren't talking about Mario, they are probably full of crap. But if you can find out a name I can ask around about the Rochester BJJ scene since it isn't far from me, and I have some second hand connections to Mario's school.

Head instructor has a black belt under Rigan. Perhaps our friend here traveled to the cities? However, that would be incredibly unlikely. Google maps shows the academy on the OPPOSITE side of the twin cities. that would be a brutal trip a few times a week to train.